Phyllis Coleman Bio
Phyllis Coleman is an American glamour model, and dancer. She was born on August 31, 1949, in White Plains, New York. Playboy named her its August 1973 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Coleman has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 35-23-35.
Her striking centerfold was entrusted to the husband-and-wife photographers Bill Figge and Mel Figge, whose composed, natural-light approach framed Coleman with the calm poise of a trained performer. The Figges favored images that felt both intimate and unforced; in her case those choices emphasized a quiet control that suggested more than a pose.
Before the camera, she had been a student of ballet, years of disciplined training that left its imprint on posture and line. That background shows up in the stillness of the images and in the way she carries herself off-camera: precise, economical movement rather than flash. Ballet provided a technical foundation that translated to modeling as composure and an ease with staged physicality.
Coleman also took an unexpected turn into the world of motorsports, serving as a publicist for her then‑boyfriend David Cormany on the Trans‑American racing circuit. When Cormany acquired one of actor James Garner’s Corvettes, she found herself managing the nonstop demands of promoting a racing team—scheduling, publicity and the perishable logistics of a high‑pressure season. She summed up the professional risk in a single, pragmatic remark: “I take the attitude that he's more likely to be killed driving on the freeway than on a race track with professional drivers.”
That combination—classical training, editorial composure and hands‑on work behind the scenes at fast, practical events—helped shape the public image that surrounded her pictorial. The result was a portrait of a model who could read a pose like choreography and then step into a very different, more public role with the same steadiness.
